Reply #26: As I recall, we were in shock.

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I was at Salon's Table Talk and I pray those Florida threads were donated to an historical archive because I have never seen anything like that recorded, instantaneous response to events as they happened. There were five thousand posts a day on that one thread, and I skipped hundreds at a time in order to keep up.

We couldn't believe it. And the media pretended it wasn't happening. But we SAW it was. That was the beginning of the change. WE validated what we were seeing to each other. WE checked sources and information coming in. WE knew the press was not covering what we were seeing. If the media had been honest, I don't know if the internet today would be anything like it is. But they literally forced us to find other means of informing ourselves.